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I’m so sick, so very sick… ugh, I won’t be at school tomorrow, so I can begin my 5 days of 5000 words per day. Why do I have to write 5000 words per day for the next 5 days? Because I am 8333 words behind schedule. Therefore, to catch up I am going to go the normal 3333 words + 1667 words extra to make up for words lost. 3333 + 1667 = 5000. Four days of doing 5000 words catches me up two days of lost words. I’m two and a half days behind, therefore I do five days of 5000 words.
G’night, folks. I need the rest.
Oh, by the way: Hemmings won’t be in Pharand for long. So if you’re thinking Pharand is kind of boring, it’s because something is about to happen…
Word Count: 51,782
I cough, I wheeze, and I make one of the most difficult decisions of the month. To write only 1000 words in a single day.
I am feeling dreadfully ill (bad cold), and I need rest. I’d love to say that through sickness I will prevail and complete my daily word requirement, but with the splitting headache that I also have, I just can’t sit in front of a monitor or sustain true cognitive thought for that long. Luckily, it’s the weekend. I can do catch-up work tomorrow and Sunday. And then there’s Thankgiving break, where I can get myself completely caught up.
Therefore, Word Count = 46,407.
I made one big change to the plot – if you check the entry for Day 1, you’ll now see that Edward Nambet is deceased. He died at the age of eighteen. Yesterday’s entry also updated the state of his death, commenting that the boy had died in a car crash. This change is absolutely crucial to the next part of the plot, which should be coming around tomorrow.
I only wrote 1667 words today. I had a bit of a brain fair, and rethought a lot of the next part of the story. I found a plot device that fits with the clues I’ve been leaving throughout the novel, and hopefully this was a good idea and not a horrible one. It should piece together a lot of the puzzles that have been flowing around throughout the novel, and lead it to the halfway point in style (and possibly be a little creepy, too).
Word Count: 41,679
Part of tonight’s writing actually expanded a paragraph of the previous night’s stuff. In the interest of organization, I’ve simply edited the last paragraph of last night’s writing to include the addition from tonight’s writing. This post continues with the paragraph after that. Oh, and: One-third finished with the novel, w00t!
Word Count: 33,339
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